I bet that you have many icons on your desktop. I do and I’m sure that the majority of users will have many icons on their desktop as well. It is convenient to have them there to be able to quickstart the programs right from the desktop. Some icons might be there because you forgot to disable the option to remove the icon on the desktop while installing the program.
I also dislike the fact that I have so many icons on my desktop, it destroys the background image that I have selected for example. One way to get rid of the icons temporarily is to use the program Icon Hider. Icon hider sits in your system tray and is able to temporarily remove all the icons on your desktop. This can be useful for aesthetic reasons, for screenshots and screencasting.
Iconhider has some additional functions that might be not that useful, judge for yourself. You may start the screensaver immediately, minimize all applications. You can use shortcuts to remove all icons, the shortcut to remove all icons is CTRL+ALT+H, the shortcut to make them appear again is CTRL+ALT+S.
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[...] One way around this is with 3rd party tools like IconHider as described in this post from ghacks. However a poster had an even better solution. Right Click on the desktop and then choose “Arrange Icons” then uncheck “Show Desktop Icons” BOOM! All the icons are gone until you choose to show them again. Share This [...]
Or simply right-click on the desktop, go to “Arrange Icons By” and un-tick “Show Desktop Items” … Done!
hehe, very nice. I did not know such function existed ;)
but that also makes the background disappear, at least for me.i get a blank white screen when i hide the desktop items.
fastdump’s right. I also didn’t notice this function earlier so it’s not worth to install an app for this after all..
… and no, it doesn’t make blank screen for me (2600.xpsp_sp_2_gdr)
A rather neat alternative is called Iconoid and is at http://www.sillysot.com/ it has the neat feature that you can set a timer to make all your desktop icons invisible and with a simple mouse click on the desktop the icons return for an alotted amount of time
The icon hider at sillysot.com is much better!
AND you can use the ctrl+h & ctrl+s commands with it too! With the other program, you have to keep it open on your desktop! Not cool!